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Avast: Yahoo, Google Guilty Of Spreading Malware

  • CNet, Tuesday, March 23, 2010 3:32 PM
Ad delivery platforms run by Yahoo, Fox, and Google are contributing to the spread of malware, according to Prague-based antivirus firm Avast. In a practice know as "malvertising," viruses and other malware were found to be lurking in ads on sites like nytimes.com and Drudge Report last year.

Avast is now blaming ad delivery platforms like Yahoo's Yield Manager and Fox Audience Network's Fimserve.com, "and to a much smaller degree Google's DoubleClick," reports CNet's InSecurity Complex blog. "It's not just the small players but the ad servers connected with Google and Yahoo have been infected and served up bad ads," Lyle Frink, public relations manager for Avast, tells the blog.

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